Based in the Bay Area, host Super Suz interviews various key figures and profiles art projects. New episodes are released twice a month.

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Meet Dazzle!, a 14 year burner who has been bringing you BRC Wheels on Meals for the last 7 years to feed the art build crews of Black Rock City during build week armed with a microwave on a flat-bed trailer and a spork. Her recent project, Stair Ramps to Heaven, is expanding and she’ll tell you how you can help make ramps to help mobility challenged burners get on art cars. Lastly, she’ll talk to us about a new game for the playa that will have you spinning in circles trying to get you and your camp mates out of camp and finally on to the playa. It’s non-stop action with Dazzle! She’s great at figuring out how to bring her projects out to the playa.

Photograph by Dazzle and Friends

Music by CRASSXAVIER from Session A038 on Alkaline Podcast found at burnerpodcast.comt

yan “Ruckus” Montgomery is the founder and lead designer of large scale art production company, Geary and Hyde Design, that uses large CNC machines in his process. He learned a lot of what he knows from participating at Burning Man. Among his big projects includes the Dustfish theme camp stage for 2015 and 2016, the decor and signage for Ice Pyrates in 2017, as well as collaborating with other artists on installations at large events in San Francisco, including the 2017 Artumnal Gathering. He also creates custom, commissioned artwork. Ryan talks about what he is learning as he develops a design business that continues to make amazing art while making a living in the Bay Area.

Red Earth Radio FM (RERFM) is an FM station for Australia’s largest burn called Burning Seed. TeeJay Man, aka Hotwire, tells us how it all started with a folding table, a tiny FM transmitter, a shade structure and 3 microphones with a mixer. Now they are online and have an actual studio with a licensed FM station.

Designer, Builder and Artist, Kevin Clark from Reared In Steel, has created amazing art projects for Burning Man, including the Rhino Redemption art car, Medusa Madness for Carnival of Mirrors 2015 and brought back for Da Vinci’s Workshop 2016. He also created Guardiano Leon for Da Vinci’s Workshop 2016, and Flower Tower at Radical Ritual, 2107. The Flower Tower is an 80 foot tall metal structure ornately decorated by thousands of painted metal flowers, some of which blew fire. His partner, Michelle Ramatici, oins us. Our conversation includes what it is like to bring out large, metal art sculptures to Black Rock City and how they engaged their local communities to help create their art. Photographraphy by Yi Yang

Deep Creek Experimental is near Telluride, Colorado. It’s a mixed use space for the experimental / industrial performing art that is located at a re-purposed and converted old limestone mine. The main goal of DCE is to provide a shared space to create and build artwork. Lead Artist, Anton Viditz-Ward has brought several art projects out to Black Rock City. We talk to him about his art and about his public art space that is building community in Colorado.

Designer, Builder and Artist, Kevin Clark from Reared In Steel, has created amazing art projects for Burning Man, including the Rhino Redemption art car, Medusa Madness for Carnival of Mirrors 2015 and brought back for Da Vinci’s Workshop 2016. He also created Guardiano Leon for Da Vinci’s Workshop 2016, and Flower Tower at Radical Ritual, 2107. The Flower Tower is an 80 foot tall metal structure ornately decorated by thousands of painted metal flowers, some of which blew fire. His partner, Michelle Ramatici, joins us. Our conversation includes what it is like to bring out large, metal art sculptures to Black Rock City and how they engaged their local communities to help create their art.